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Jason Jay
Hear name pronounced.Senior Lecturer, Sustainability
Jason Jay is a Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Director of the Sustainability Initiative at MIT Sloan. He teaches courses on leadership, strategy, and innovation for sustainable business. Jason engages students and alumni…
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Namrata Kala
Associate Professor, Applied Economics
Namrata Kala is an Associate Professor in Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is an economist with research interests in environmental and development economics. Her current research projects include studying how firms and…
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Christopher Knittel
Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability
Christopher Knittel is the Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability, the George P. Shultz Professor and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Prior to MIT Sloan, Knittel taught at the University of California,…
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Robert S. Pindyck
Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd Professor in Finance and Economics
Robert Pindyck is the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd. Professor in Finance and Economics and a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.Pindyck’s most recent research focuses on economic policies related to rare disasters,…
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Gita R. Rao
Senior Lecturer, Finance; Assoc. Faculty Director, MFin Program
Gita Rao is a Senior Lecturer in Finance, and Associate Faculty Director of the Master of Finance program at the MIT Sloan School of Management.She joined the MIT Sloan finance faculty with over two decades of experience in global investing, asset…
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John D. Sterman
Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management
John D. Sterman is the Jay W. Forrester Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management and a Professor in the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. He is also the Director of the MIT System Dynamics Group and the MIT Sloan…
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Y. Karen Zheng
George M. Bunker Associate Professor
Yanchong (Karen) Zheng is the George M. Bunker Professor and an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. She is also the faculty leader for the Sloan-Affilated LGO degree program. Her research studies…
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"Climate Policy Reform Options in 2025."
Bistline, John, Kimberly A. Clausing, Neil Mehrotra, James H. Stock, and Catherine Wolfram. Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy. Forthcoming. NBER Working Paper 32168.
"Environmental Sustainability in Cardiovascular Practice: Current Challenges and Future Directions."
Rajagopalan, Sanjay, Scott McAlister, Jason Jay et al. Nature Reviews Cardiology. Forthcoming.
"Improving Farmers’ Income on Online Agri-Platforms: Evidence from the Field."
Retsef Levi, Manoj Rajan, Somya Singhvi, and Y. Karen Zheng. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management. Forthcoming.
"Money (Not) to Burn: Payments for Ecosystem Services to Reduce Crop Residue Burning."
Jack, Kelsey, Seema Jayachandran, Namrata Kala, and Rohini Pande. AER: Insights. Forthcoming. MIT Climate Portal.
"Nonlinear Conjugate Gradient Methods: Worst-case Convergence Rates via Computer-assisted Analyses."
Das Gupta, Shuvomoy, Robert M. Freund, Andy Sun, and Adrien Taylor. Mathematical Programming. Forthcoming. arXiv Preprint.
"The Impact of Managerial Autonomy on Firm Outcomes."
Kala, Namrata. Econometrica. Forthcoming. NBER Working Paper.
"Using Machine Learning to Target Treatment: The Case of Household Energy Use."
Knittel, Christopher R., and Samuel Stolper. The Economic Journal. Forthcoming. NBER Working Paper.
"Getting Strategic about Sustainability."
Jay, Jason, Kate Isaacs, and Hong Linh Nguyen. Harvard Business Review, January 2025.
"Productivity, Population, and Sustainable Consumption."
Pindyck, Robert S. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics Vol. 16, No. 4 (2024): 218-238. SSRN Preprint.
"How to Improve Citizen Engagement on Public Service Platforms? The Impact of Government Responsiveness."
Topic: Operations Management
Qihua Gao, Yasheng Huang, El Ghali Zerhouni, and Y. Karen Zheng, MIT Sloan Working Paper 7044-23. Cambridge, MA: MIT Sloan School of Management, September 2024.
Keywords: Public Service Platforms, Government Responsiveness, Citizen Engagement, Causal Inference, Empirical Operations Management
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